Bae,

Kim & Lee LLC ("BKL") was named as the "Competition & Antitrust Firm of

the Year" at the Asialaw Asia-Pacific Legal Practice Awards 2017 at the JW

Marriott Hotel in Hong Kong on November 28, 2017. The "Competition &

Antitrust Firm of the Year" is a highly coveted award bestowed by Asialaw, which

is the Asia Pacific's leading legal publisher owned by Euromoney, a global

business and finance magazine.

Asialaw

Asia-Pacific Legal Practice Awards, given for the first time this year, is a

set of awards for law firms across 24 jurisdictions to recognize excellence in

their achievements in 18 practice areas based on their performance between July

2016 and June 2017, which was evaluated by Asialaw’s dedicated researchers.

BKL’s

Antitrust and Competition team has demonstrated unparalleled expertise in the

area by handling a number of high-profile cases both in Korea and abroad. BKL

represented the intervenors in a case filed by Qualcomm seeking to revoke

corrective measures imposed by the Korean Fair Trade Commission; successfully

defended cinema operators in a film producer’s claim for damages allegedly arising

from the cinema operator’s distribution of free movie tickets, and advised LG

Uplus to challenge the proposed anticompetitive merger of SK Telecom and CJ

HelloVision, among others.

Furthermore, Mr.

Keumseok OH, a partner, was selected among “Market Leading Lawyers” and Mr. Seong

Un YUN, a partner, was named among “Leading Lawyers” in Competition &

Antitrust in the 2017 edition of Asialaw’s Guide to Asia-Pacific’s Leading

Lawyers.

BKL’s Antitrust

and Competition team, comprising about 40 prominent practitioners, has recently

published the revised edition of “Theory and Practice of the Act on Fair

Transactions in Large Franchise and Retail Business” and endeavored to expand

research and education in fair trade law. Mr. OH commented in response to BKL’s

recognition at the Asialaw Asia-Pacific Legal Practice Awards 2017, “I believe

this award was an acknowledgment of our tireless efforts.”